…a band or bundle of fibrous tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract, producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body…
…a band or bundle of fibrous tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract, producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body…
…a band or bundle of fibrous tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract, producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body…
…any of a number of bivalve molluscs with a brown or purplish-black shell:…
…any of a number of bivalve molluscs with a brown or purplish-black shell:…
…muscle tissue in which the contractile fibrils are not highly ordered, occurring in the gut and other internal organs and not under voluntary control…
…use one’s power or influence to interfere with or become involved in (another’s affairs)…
…any of several muscles enabling the thumb to be placed front to front against a finger of the same hand…
…each of the four large paired muscles which cover the front of the ribcage and serve to draw the forelimbs towards the chest…
…a muscle which is connected to the skeleton to form part of the mechanical system which moves the limbs and other parts of the body…
…muscle tissue in which the contractile fibrils in the cells are aligned in parallel bundles, so that their different regions form stripes visible in a microscope. Muscles of this type are attached to the skeleton by tendons and are under voluntary control. Also called skeletal muscle…
…each of six small voluntary muscles controlling movement of the eyeball within the socket…
…a psychological disorder marked by a negative body image and an obsessive desire to have a muscular physique…
…a large, strong man, especially one employed for protection or to intimidate people…
…a homosexual man who has prominent, well-developed muscles…
…the normal level of firmness or slight contraction in a resting muscle…
…the part of the eye that connects the iris to the choroid. It consists of the ciliary muscle (which alters the curvature of the lens), a series of radial ciliary process (from which the lens is suspended by ligaments), and the ciliary ring (which adjoins the choroid)…
…a thick triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and used for raising the arm away from the body…
…a muscle whose contraction dilates an organ or aperture, such as the pupil of the eye…
…a muscle whose contraction bends a limb or other part of the body…
…any of three muscles in each buttock which move the thigh, the largest of which is the gluteus maximus…
…a triangular muscle which passes from the pelvis through the groin on either side and, together with the psoas, flexes the hip…
…a muscle whose contraction causes the raising of a part of the body…
…a broad muscle in the lower calf, below the gastrocnemius, which flexes the foot to point the toes downwards…
…a muscle whose contraction moves a limb or part away from the midline of the body, or from another part…
…a muscle whose contraction moves a limb or other part of the body towards the midline of the body or towards another part…
…a muscle whose contraction narrows a vessel or passage…
…the muscle of the spermatic cord, by which the testicle can be partially raised…
…a muscle whose contraction pulls down a part of the body…
…a muscle which forms a layer of the wall of the bladder…
…each of a pair of muscles which run under the jaw and act to open it…
…a muscle whose contraction extends or straightens a limb or other part of the body…
…a slender superficial muscle of the inner thigh…
…a muscle which runs through the rear part of the cheek from the temporal bone to the lower jaw on each side and closes the jaw in chewing…
…a muscle serving to extend a part of the body…
…a muscle serving to retract a part of the body…
…a long, narrow muscle running obliquely across the front of each thigh from the hip bone to the inside of the leg below the knee…
…either of two muscles attached to the vertebrae in the neck and upper back which draw back the head…
…either of a pair of large triangular muscles extending over the back of the neck and shoulders and moving the head and shoulder blade…
…the chief muscle of the calf of the leg, which flexes the knee and foot. It runs to the Achilles tendon from two heads attached to the femur…
…the part of the eye that connects the iris to the choroid. It consists of the ciliary muscle (which alters the curvature of the lens), a series of radial ciliary process (from which the lens is suspended by ligaments), and the ciliary ring (which adjoins the choroid)…
